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Wednesday 15 October 2014

Fwd: AlertNet Weekly Digest 15 October 2014 - Ebola still spreading in West Africa, U.N. cuts food aid to 1 million Afghans, violence grips Yemen




The top humanitarian headlines from trust.org this week include: Ebola still spreading in West Africa, U.N. cuts food aid to 1 million Afghans, violence grips Yemen

 

AFRICA

Sierra Leone residents clash with police over Ebola response

WHO says Ebola epidemic still spreading in West Africa

WHO may declare Nigeria and Senegal Ebola-free within days

Many Liberian healthcare workers ignore Ebola strike call

VIDEO: Ebola researcher looks to the internet for funding

VIDEO: Obama: World is not doing enough to contain Ebola

Somalia presidential adviser linked to militants -UN monitors

Nine killed including UN peacekeeper in Central African Republic

 

AMERICAS

Colombia says rebel chief has been to Cuba for peace talks

VIDEO: First group of Syrian refugees arrives in Uruguay

 

ASIA

U.N. agency to cut food rations for 1 million Afghans over funding

Cyclone kills 24 in east India, sparks fears of floods

Reluctance to use toilets stymies India's sanitation drive

INSIGHT-India-Pakistan clashes escalate into a humanitarian tragedy

Landslides menace Kashmir's unprotected mountain villages

 

EUROPE

Europe urged to end plight of 600,000 ghost people

FACTBOX: How does someone end up stateless in Europe?

"Like tumbleweed, I can never put down roots" - stateless woman

 

MIDDLE EAST

Houthi rebels take over Yemen's Hodeidah port -residents

INSIGHT-Yemen on the brink as rebels oust the old guard

Kobani air strikes seen more accurate, Kurds give coordinates-monitor

Kurds hold off Islamic State in Kobani; fighters strike in Iraq

Bomb training vital as Kurds retake Islamic State ground in Iraq

Up to 180,000 refugees flee Iraqi town - UN

Islamic State seeks to justify enslaving Yazidi women and girls in Iraq

Kerry pushes for Mideast peace, donors pledge $5 bln for Palestinians

 

GLOBAL

Can the world produce enough food for 2 bln more people?

Burundi, Eritrea, East Timor top global hunger index

Aid groups cheer food price fall to 4-year low, "hunger hotspots" remain

Older people hit hardest by disasters - report

Malala Yousafzai, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize

 

VOICES

Why haven't we seen a major Ebola crisis before? - Reporter Peter Apps says people not governments will end Ebola as he recalls his time covering Angola's Marburg outbreak

Investigative journalism's "golden age" faces surveillance threat - Kieran Guilbert, Thomson Reuters Foundation

The face of hunger is not partisan - Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development

Hope in the slums of Nairobi starts to run dry - Jane Otai, Senior Program Advisor for Jhpiego,  a non-profit global health affiliate of Johns Hopkins University

You're never too old to be disaster-resilient - Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction and head of the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Taking on 'hidden hunger' which affects a staggering 2 billion people worldwide - Dominic MacSorley, CEO Concern Worldwide


 


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